Digital Training

Training aids for surgeons

A USB stick containing 7 complete lip or palate surgical procedures is available on request and FREE to surgeons. Read more

CLEFT Trustees walking, running and cycling their way to Bangladesh!

Team CLEFT are walking, running and cycling the distance between London and Bangladesh in support of our overseas centres. This is a huge challenge... can it be done!?
[email protected] now launched!

We are delighted that our website [email protected] is now available.
Pioneering use of the operating microscope

Early on in his career as plastic surgeon, CLEFT Chairman Mr Brian Sommerlad realised that operating techniques could be improved upon and in 1993, he started to use a microscope for surgery.
Our research vision

At CLEFT, our vision is of a future where clefts are preventable. Until we get there, we want to improve the lives of those born with cleft lip and palate.

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A trip to the roof of the world

A group of 12 adventurers, aged between 12 and 58 years old, left London in October 2019 for the challenge of a lifetime – to climb Mount Kilimajaro in Tanzania. Everyone had spent a year planning, training and fundraising for it and were ready for the challenges that lay ahead. CLEFT trustee and Kilimanjaro climber, Tracy Morris, tells us her story....
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Kamrul

Kamrul was born with a craniofacial cleft in 2018. Follow his amazing progress here.
Moriam

Moriam was born with a unilateral, single sided cleft of lip and palate. Her parents explain why receiving treatment at the cleft centre in Dhaka was so important.
Soft palate muscles research

A project to better understand the way the muscles of the soft palate work to see if improvements can be made to surgical techniques and reduce the need for further operations and speech therapy.
The genetics of cleft lip and palate

Investigations into the genetics of cleft lip and palate to understand more about why cleft lip and palate occurs.
TBX22 Mouse Model

CLEFT has funded research into the investigation of a gene called the TBX22 that regulates important development events during normal palate function, in order to find new treatments.